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Coach pay: Fun facts from contracts

Head coaches' contracts with Bowl Subdivision schools can be more than a matter of money. Some of the more unusual provisions of current deals: Army: Pays Rich Ellerson $50,000 for defeating Navy, $50,000 for defeating Air Force or $150,000 for defeating Navy and Air Force in the same season. He also gets $10,000 each year if the team plays a regular-season game against a team from a BCS conference and the school is guaranteed and actually receives at least $400,000 for the game. California: Jeff Tedford can receive increases in his $1.575 million annual talent fee for all subsequent years of his contract "” up to $1 million worth of increases over the contract's term "” if the team meets any of five goals involving the Pac-10 championship, a BCS appearance or the national title game. He gets a $250,000 bonus if he is head coach when the team fully occupies a new training facility (expected late summer 2011) and another $250,000 if he is head coach when Cal plays its first home game in renovated Memorial Stadium (expected for the 2012 season). Central Michigan: Every year when at least 60 percent of scholarship recipients are Michigan residents, as defined by the home address of the player's legal guardian, Dan Enos receives $5,000. Kansas State: "To assist in representing" the university and athletics department, Bill Snyder receives four tickets to the Big 12 men's and women's basketball tournaments and, as available, four tickets to NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament games in which Kansas State participates. This includes travel expenses for such games for Snyder and his spouse. Middle Tennessee State: If Rick Stockstill terminates his contract without cause and becomes the head coach at another Division I school, the university gets to choose between accepting a $200,000 payment from Stockstill or requiring his new school to enter into a contract for a single game against Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Purdue: Upon termination or expiration of his contract, Danny Hope can keep personal items and records, including personal playbooks, notebooks, documents, etc. But "prior to removing or destroying any such" items, coach "will allow athletics director or his designee to review such property or documents to confirm that they are in fact personal, rather than Purdue, property." Idaho: Robb Akey's right to receive any of the money he is supposed to get for media programs and public appearances is contingent on several factors, including "behavior of team members" and "appropriate behavior by, and supervision of," all assistant coaches, as determined by the athletics director. North Carolina: In January, the university will hold a "good-faith review" of Butch Davis' salary and additional compensation. Iowa: When Kirk Ferentz received a new contract this year, the deal included a one-time signing bonus of $400,000 to Ferentz and his assistants. Ferentz was to receive $100,000. The remainder was to be divided among the nine full-time assistant coaches, the head and first assistant strength coaches and the director of football operations, with the amounts determined by Ferentz and the athletics director. Marshall: The buyout that Doc Holliday has for early termination "” $600,000 for each remaining year on his five-year contract "” includes the following caveat: Marshall's athletics director has the right to designate, in writing, one college head coaching position for Holliday's buyout would be $3 million if he accepts the designated position within a year of his resignation from Marshall. According to a document obtained by USA TODAY in response to a freedom of information request, the designated school is Marshall's in-state rival, and Holliday's previous employer, West Virginia. Compiled by Rachel Leven, Steve Berkowitz, USA Today

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The University of Nevada is getting some serious bang for its buck in football coach Chris Ault -- if one uses victories as a measuring stick.

Nevada, which finished the regular season with a 12-1 record, paid $36,924 per win in 2010.

Ault's guaranteed salary of $443,093 ranks as the best value in the West.

By contrast, Texas coach Mack Brown's salary is upwards of $5 million, and he and the Longhorns delivered only five wins. The a stunningly low rate of return that easily ranked as the worst in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision, according to USA TODAY's annual analysis of coaches' compensation.

The No. 14-ranked Nevada football team is headed to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco on Jan. 9. It plays Boston College in a 6 p.m. kickoff.

On Monday, Ault was named the Western Athletic Conference coach of the year. His Wolf Pack upset then-No. 3-ranked Boise State in Reno last month.

"That's a wonderful reflection of the work ethic and dedication of this football team and my coaching staff," said Ault, also the 2005 WAC coach of the year. "Really, on their behalf I'm proud to accept the award because they're the ones that make it possible. That's pretty special when you've got a team that's done what they've done. These coaches have worked awfully hard. We had our fanny to the wall all year long. ... I'm very, very proud of them, and very proud to be a part of this football program."

Miami (Ohio) coach Mike Haywood was the best overall value in college football, making $300,000 this season or $33,333 for each of his nine wins. The Redhawks are headed for the program's first bowl (GoDaddy.com) in six years.

Northern Illinois is paying Jerry Kill almost $347,000, or a little less than $35,000 for each of the 10 victories that propelled the Huskies to the Humanitarian Bowl. This week, Minnesota hired him away.

Four of the six lowest-cost-per-win coaches came out of the Mid-American Conference.

The second-worst deal in the country?

The single win that Minnesota got for the $808,000 it paid Tim Brewster, who was fired in mid-October.

Three more schools paid their coaches $700,000 or more per victory: Memphis and New Mexico (where, respectively, Larry Porter and Mike Locksley are guaranteed $750,000 and won just once) and Kansas (where Turner Gill is making $2.1 million and finished his first season 3-8).

Brown is spending a discontented offseason at home -- "not our standard at all" -- his team ineligible for a bowl for the first time in 20 years .

Three of the eight highest-per-win coaches work in the Southeastern: Alabama's Nick Saban ($666,372), Mississippi's Houston Nutt ($625,000) and Florida's Urban Meyer ($572,857).